The Deleted Scenes of August Rush
Scene #5
Well...for this one, I obviously added all the Melanie stuff. Oh, and I think they omitted this scene from the movie because it didn't really work out...I mean, they already had a scene with Evan and the Wizard talking about music and stuff.
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Evan lay awake in his sleeping bag in the Wizard's room, his head spinning with thoughts. So Melanie really was the voice. The voice that had lulled him to sleep for about half a year. The voice that was there when everyone else wasn't.
The voice that had finally found a friend in him.
"You know what's out there?" the Wizard asked, jerking him out of those thoughts.
Evan shook his head.
"The past," the Wizard answered. "The stars are so far away, it takes light years and years to reach us."
"Years?"
"Oh, yeah. Sometimes hundreds. Thousands and hundreds of years."
Evan stared out the broken skylight. He wondered if Melanie knew that, considering the stars were her only audience when she sang at night.
Well…besides him, that was…
Think of me…think of me waking silent and resigned…Imagine me…trying to hard to put you from my mind…
He relaxed and closed his eyes, soaking in Melanie's voice. She sounded better than ever when she was closer.
"There are stars being born right now," the Wizard told him. "You can't even see it yet. And the ones we do see…most of them are long-gone. So all that's left is the light. It's like ghosts."
Evan looked at him. Ghosts?
"That's why when you see the stars, you see the past. You get to kinda time-travel. Think about people left behind."
"Do you have parents, Wizard?" Evan asked.
The Wizard sat up. "Now, you don't wanna start swapping sad stories, do you?" he asked, laughing.
Evan sat up, and the two of them sat in silence.
On second thought…
Think of me…please say you'll think of me…whatever else you choose to do…There will never be a day…when I won't think of you…
"What do you want from me, August?" the Wizard asked.
"Nothing."
"Really?" he asked doubtfully.
Evan nodded. He didn't want anything from the Wizard. He didn't want anything from anybody.
But apparently the Wizard and the other kids wanted something from him.
And that something was his presence.
"Welcome to the family, kid!" the Wizard said later that night, giving him a necklace with a star-shaped pendant.
The other kids ran from all different directions, cheering him and swinging him around. Evan tried to act happy, but there was one thing he wanted to do right then.
He was able to ditch the mini-celebration and ran up the stairs to the roof.